Pedro Armendáriz
Born: 1912-05-09 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Died: 1963-06-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
Filmography
2024
- The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
1963
- From Russia with Love as Ali Kerim Bey
- Captain Sindbad as El Kerim
- La Bandida as Roberto Herrera
1962
- Los valientes no mueren
- My Son, the Hero as Cadmo
- Miracles Weaver as Señor Cura
1961
- Francis of Assisi as The Sultan
- My Son, the Hero as General
1960
- Violent Summer as Francisco Peña
- La cárcel de Cananea as Pedro
- El indulto as Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
- Calibre 44 as Don Pedro
- Our Daily Hunger as Macario Férnandez
- El impostor as Profesor César Rubio
- Los desarraigados
- Dos hijos desobedientes as Pedro
1959
- Café Colón
- La Cucaracha as Coronel Valentín Razo
- The Wonderful Country as Cipriano Castro
- Yo pecador
- Thirst for Love as Pedro Ortiz
- Beyond All Limits as Pepe Gamboa
- El zarco
- The Vivanco Ladies as Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
- The Little Savage as El Tiburón
- I'm flying low
1958
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Yo quiero ser artista as Self
- This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter as Pancho Villa
- This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter as Pancho Villa
- Los salvajes as Pedro Matías
1957
- Manuela as Mario Constanza
- The Big Boodle as Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)
- This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter as Pancho Villa
- Men and Wolves as Giovanni
- La mujer que no tuvo infancia
1956
- The Conqueror as Jamuga
- Diane as King Francis I
- The Hidden One as Felipe Rojano
- Basket of Mexican Tales as Carlos Cosio
1955
- Fortune carrée as Igricheff
- Native Drums as Martinez
- The Littlest Outlaw as Gen. Torres
1954
- Border River as General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Rebellion of the Hanged as Cándido Castro
- Reto a la vida as Diego Maldonado
- Mulata as Martín
- Dos mundos y un amor as Ricardo Anaya
1953
- Lucrèce Borgia as César Borgia
- The Brute as Pedro
- The Lovers of Toledo as Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera
1952
- Los tres alegres compadres as Baldomero Mireles
- Night Falls as Marcos Arizmendi
- Soledad's Shawl as Roque Suazo
- Meat in Prison as Pablo González
1951
- Ella y yo as Pedro Muñóz
- Weddings of fire
- Tierra baja as Manelic
- Hell Road as Pedro Uribe
- For Loving a Woman
1950
- The Torch as José Juan Reyes
- Rosauro Castro as Rosauro Castro
- La loca de la casa as José María Cruz
- By the False Door as Bernardo Celis
- Pancho Villa vuelve
1949
- We Were Strangers as Armando Ariete
- El abandonado
- Tulsa as Jim Redbird
- The Unloved Woman as Esteban
- Late Afternoon as Sebastian del Llano
- El charro y la dama
1948
- 3 Godfathers as Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
- Fort Apache as Sgt. Beaufort
- Juan Charrasqueado as Juan Robledo (Charrasqueado)
- Maclovia as José María
- En la Hacienda de la Flor
1947
- The Fugitive as A Lieutenant of Police
- The Pearl as Quino
- Albur de amor
- La casa colorada
1946
- Enamorada as Gen. José Juan Reyes
- Rayando el sol
1945
- El capitán Malacara
- Bugambilia as Ricardo Rojas
- The Abandoned as Juan Gómez
- Entre hermanos as Ramón Arellano
1944
1943
- Another Dawn as Octavio
- Wild Flower as José Luis Castro
- Tierra De Pasiones
- Konga Roja as Federico Robles
1942
- I'm a Real Mexican as Guadalupe Padilla
- Passion Island as El Toro
- Simón Bolívar as General Briceño Méndez
- Allá en el bajio as Juan Hernández
- Del rancho a la capital
1941
- El Zorro de Jalisco as Leonardo Torres
- Ni sangre ni arena as Frank
- El secreto del sacerdote
1940
- El jefe máximo
- Mala yerba as Chuy Rodríguez
- Pobre diablo as Raúl Solares
- Los olvidados de Dios as Zenón Rojas
- El charro Negro as Ramón
1939
1938
- Los millones de Chaflán as Antonio
- Canto a mi tierra as Antonio
- El indio